Bugtraq: Re: /proc filesystem allows bypassing directory permissions on

[Gabor Gombas <gombasg () sztaki hu>]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 08:53:26PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > The link count of a files tells you the number of hard links that
> > are persisted within the same filesystem.  It is _NOT_ a promise
> > that there are no other means to access the inode of the file.
> It used to be promise before /proc was mounted.
"mount --bind" behaves like a hard link and it does not increment the link
count.

Gabor

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